Quotes of the day

posted at 10:31 pm on January 22, 2013 by Allahpundit

On the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we reaffirm its historic commitment to protect the health and reproductive freedom of women across this country and stand by its guiding principle: that government should not intrude on our most private family matters, and women should be able to make their own choices about their bodies and their health care. Today and every day, my Administration continues our efforts to reduce unintended pregnancies, support maternal and child health, and minimize the need for abortion. On this anniversary, we recommit ourselves to supporting women and families in the choices they make and redouble our efforts to promote safe and healthy communities.

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“The front lines of defending those rights are really in the state capitols, while there’s a bit of a stalemate on reproductive issues at the federal level,” said Anna Scholl, director of ProgressVA, which opposed Virginia’s widely publicized new law requiring women seeking abortions to undergo ultrasound exams. “The states are where the decisions that affect women, the soccer moms in the suburbs, are really happening.”…

While the antiabortion bills passed in Virginia grabbed the biggest headlines in 2012, 18 states restricted access to abortion services last year, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Arizona led the charge with seven antiabortion bills, while Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin each enacted at least three measures.

In a sign that NARAL Pro-Choice America may be taking a more aggressive stance, the national abortion-rights group recently announced that its new president will be Ilyse Hogue, a former leader of MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy group known for in-your-face tactics. “This is a critical moment to engage a new general of young people in the conversation about what choice means in a modern age,” Hogue said in a written statement.

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The pro-choice movement has good reason for pessimism. These articles show that pro-lifers have developed some legislative strategies that have been quietly effective at lowering the incidence of abortion. More important, pro-choice groups are publicly admitting that they are having trouble engaging young people. When NARAL president Nancy Keenan announced her resignation in May 2012, she expressed concern about an “intensity gap” among young people. Indeed, NARAL’s own survey data indicated that young pro-lifers seemed to see the abortion issue as more important than young supporters of legal abortion. Other survey data supports this: The General Social Survey (GSS) has been asking the same battery of question on the legality of abortion since the early 1970s. During the 1970s and 1980s, young adults were significantly more “pro-choice” than average. However, surveys taken between 2000 and 2006 show that the Millenials are actually the most pro-life demographic cohort. An additional survey taken by the Polling Company this summer found that young people often feel more comfortable restricting abortion in certain circumstances than older Americans do…

Of course, the 2012 election was a disappointment. However, as I often remind pro-lifers, electoral politics is important, but it is not the only game in town. The pro-life movement has become increasingly entrepreneurial, strategic, and innovative. And we have to work harder and smarter than our opponents. After all, the government does not pay us to protect unborn children. Similarly, we have little support from elite institutions in academia, the media, and the entertainment industry. Older initiatives such as sidewalk counseling, local pro-life chapters and crisis pregnancy centers continue to do invaluable work. However, newer outreach efforts including Students for Life of America (SFLA), the Silent No More Campaign, 40 Days for Life, and LiveAction films have already produced very impressive short-term results. Overall, it should come as no surprise that our opponents are concerned. And I have every confidence if we stay the course, victory will someday be ours.

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Florida senator Marco Rubio marked the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade with the following statement:

Today marks the tragic anniversary of one of America’s most blatant instances of judicial activism that paved the way for the destruction of innocent unborn life. Since this decision, tens of millions of our nation’s unborn babies have been denied the chance to celebrate a birthday, begin kindergarten or go on to contribute their God-given talents to our world.

As a U.S. senator, I am privileged to serve in a position that allows me to fight for the lives of the unborn. I will continue to fulfill my duty to fight to reduce the number of abortions. As with many of our nation’s most important debates, the battlefield of this issue is in the hearts and minds of the American electorate, and I pray that we can one day live in a society that fully cherishes every life from conception until death.”

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Members of the Congressional Pro-life Caucus on Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade by highlighting the stories of women who regret their abortions.

“Women who have been so hurt by abortion [are] truly the untold story that needs to be told on Capitol Hill and everywhere else in the United States,” said the co-chair of the caucus, New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith, who called the years since Roe v. Wade “40 years of government-sanctioned violence against women.”…

The hypocrisy of it all, however, is that while the President publicly acknowledges the value of “even one life” when it advances his own political agenda, he fails to acknowledge as much when it comes to protecting the lives of children soon to be born. In that same speech, he proclaimed that “when it comes to protecting the most vulnerable among us, we must act now.” Well, who is more vulnerable than those who find themselves at the mercy of others to honor their existence and receive them into our world? Are these—the truly vulnerable—not worthy of the protection of which the President speaks? Why is it that their cause is never the subject of one of his lofty addresses to the nation? Has he ever even mentioned the March for Life that takes place in his own back yard and ought to be worthy of at least a scant mention? If indeed we have an obligation to save “even one life,” when will we hear our President rally Americans to stand alongside women who find themselves in these less than ideal circumstances to offer the support they need, to encourage parents to choose life, and to promote the option of adoption? Instead, he has committed himself to the most liberal of abortion agendas—so much so that as a Senator he couldn’t even bring himself to support the Born Alive Act that would save the lives of babies ALREADY BORN and needing medical aid. Further, he believes taxpayers should betray their consciences by paying for his abortion agenda. This same President has stated he didn’t want his daughters “punished with a baby,” and remarked that it was “above my pay grade” to answer a pastor’s question: “At what point does a baby get human rights?” Yet now we are to somehow believe that children are the priority in his current aggressive campaign against the Second Amendment?

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It’s natural to focus on events that have happened instead of those that haven’t, and on people we have interacted with as opposed to those we’ve never met. But today it seems worth reflecting on some of those people we haven’t met: the 54 million who have died in abortions in the past four decades.

It’s hard to mourn them because we know virtually nothing about them, except they once existed. So much of them remained potential. We don’t know how many of them would have been eager and well-behaved, and how many would been hellions, and how many would have been, like most of us as children, a mixture of earnest affection and efforts and tantrums. We don’t who of them would have been the clowns, mugging it up behind a teacher’s back. We don’t who of them would have been quiet dreamers, spending long hours staring at the clouds and thinking. We don’t know who of them would have been able to hit home runs, and who would have been able to do math equations in their head in the blink of an eye…

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To all the anti-abortion folks, I was wrong…anti-abortion away all you want in 2016. The Pro-abortion folks are seriously deranged.

Sometimes you forget just how off their rockers the progressives are in this country. I don’t know how this country survives but if I am going to go out I would prefer to do it like an American and not grovelling to some eugenics supporting, population controlling lunatics.

It is like a bad dream and Hitler somehow won WWII, just that in this bad dream many people who Hitler would have despised are now down with more National Socialism! I need a drink….

May God have mercy on our country. This callous attitude toward life is evidence of a decadent civilization. The split in the country may be needed to split those who love life from those who despise it.

Never let them get away with the deadly euphemism “reproductive rights.” All abortions kill human beings that have already been reproduced.

Also, don’t let them claim to be pro-choice. When you insist on taxpayer-funded abortions, you aren’t giving people the choice whether to pay for them, and you are implying that society needs more abortions to be better. That’s pro-abortion, not pro-choice.

They will eventually want to treat everyone the same way, expendable for the greater good. There is a certain black-hearted, soulless look in the eyes of the people who support this; they could just as easily slide a knife between your ribs while smiling if ordered to do so in the name of some cause.

A coherent alternative would need to answer each of these errors and to put forward a political vision and program that champions the constitutional system and its underlying worldview, lifts up civil society as a key source of our strength, sustains the moral preconditions for democratic capitalism, protects every life, and transforms the institutions of the liberal welfare state into a robust safety net that guards the vulnerable and gives everyone a chance to benefit from and participate in our dynamic economy rather than shielding them from it. It is not hard to imagine such a combination of ideas because that combination, in its various forms, is what American conservatism stands for. It probably wouldn’t hurt to let the voting public know that.

I was trying to discover when the Left started using the term collective, and I stumbled across something about Stalin and his enforced collectivization in the U.S.S.R. I’d forgotten about that. It reminded me of the complete disdain the Left hold for the importance and worth of the individual, and the way it has no desire for parents and family to be beyond its control. They’re threats to letting the government have complete control—abortion subverts those threats.

! ! ! disgusting. That’s it for the internet tonight. That was just so unbelievably disgusting. What happened to this country? The boomers really f*&^*% thier job up. A new generation that celebrates abortion. WTH?!?!

That ad is just bizarre! When I first saw it, I thought it was put out in sarcasm by the pro-lifers.

A sexy guy sits there in a sexy situation, trying to seduce us… Like all the “players” out there are thanking 40 years of Roe v. Wade. It’s like he’s saying, “Hey baby, let’s get it on–and if anything happens, you can always just have an abortion, thanks to Roe v. Wade.”

Well…I’ve just been lurking and reading; and I’m gonna fold it up early tonight.

I hope you feel better real soon, Scrumpy. Take care of yourself.

I don’t think I’ll ever forgive the SCOTUS for dropping RvWade on my birthday. I have to spend the day listening to ghouls celebrate their “right” to murder unborn infants in the womb. It sort of throws a damper on the whole day.

OK, not exactly on topic, but sort of related. I just saw an advertisement for “Lisa Ling’s America” on the OWN network (Oprah Winfrey Network).

Topic of the hour? S&M, bondage, etc. with what appeared to be some graphic scenes.

Think about how far Oprah has fallen in her empire ever since she came out and betrayed Hillary (girl power) and endorsed Obama (black power trumps girl power) and then she lost half her audience, forever it appears.

She has this pending deal for this network at about the time of the 2008 election. She created the perfect storm to have it all blow up in her face. Her network has a very small audience and now some of her original programming has stooped to the level of this dubious topic, on prime time, no less.

By the way, I read that Oprah was conveniently out of the country for this inauguration, and the conjecture was it is a result of a falling out over Michelle’s comment about not wanting so many fat people at the White House. Fact or salacious gossip, dunno.

But supporting Obama has come at a very high cost for Oprah.

And here we are, 40 years later, and what, 55 million aborted babies? What Percentage of these little future people who were denied the right to be born, would have been born into households that vote for democrats? Doesn’t seem to make sense to me that the lib support this odious action when it is future voters that they are snuffing from the womb.

I successfully avoided all inauguration everything yesterday except for the glimpse of Oprah not coming to the event and I did like Michelle O’s inaugural dress. Much improved over the last one.

i’ve been looking on web reaction to the center for reproductive rights ad.

i am hoping it gets more notice tomorrow. Now it is just twitchy and mediaite.

twitter, not so much. Youtube (on their own channel) it is getting ripped (ha, ha, morons). I’m hoping it hits Drudge tomorrow and Memeorandum..etc.

FireDogLake didn’t like it none too much

When I first saw this ad, I thought it was a right-wing produced anti-Roe v Wade commercial because it is soooo yucky and creepy. For me the guy falls straight into the worst stereotype of the typical smarmy cad who wants to bang without a condom on the first dip. He’s slick, faux-seductive, self-entitled, bougie, and a boozer. Flunk. Fail. So when I saw it was produced by the pro-choice Center for Reproductive Rights, I threw up a little in my mouth.

Was watching Lawrence of Arabia a few weeks back, and when I got to the scene when Lawrence was explaining to the rebels’ 2nd in command that he was a bastard (with the implication it had been one of his subconscious drivers), it struck me, we don’t have bastards any more. He would have just been flushed down the pipes, or just been yet another kid who didn’t know who their daddy was.

We won’t confuse your birthday with this, best wishes for many more happy birthdays. I know how you feel though, I have Timothy McVeigh to thank for casting a shadow on our wedding anniversary. Dumbass.

I don’t think this is going to be believed even if the military hero comes forward with video. As to Mr. Garrow being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, I am sure the press will be all to willing to remind everyone that Rush Limbaugh was nominate also. But more importantly, look at who has actually won it.